Anthony Weiner, a once rising Democrat political star, will be receiving a sentence on Monday after getting caught exchanging lewd messages and pictures with a minor.

The AP reported that federal prosecutors are looking get Weiner locked up for two years in prison for the act of sexting with a 15-year-old girl. The prosecutors noted that this was not “merely a ‘sexting’ case . . . the defendant did far more than exchange typed words on a lifeless cellphone screen with a faceless...